Tellers, Tales, Tradition comes to the ‘Story Kitchen of Amsterdam’.
Tobias owes a debt to a Fire Wolf, a creature of darkness, once human, who has committed a series of such terrible deeds that their soul has become seared and they have been transformed to a fearsome creature of fire and darkness. Over the weekend we will journey with Tobias through seven trials, seven, stories, seven soul-searing moments as he quests to redeem this soulless creature.
Tellers, Tales, Tradition is the chance to hear an extended story over the course of a weekend, an unforgettable experience.
Address: Buiksloterweg 9 Amsterdam
Price: € 275 to attend for the whole weekend including two lunches and one simple meal on Saturday evening
To book for the weekend email: [email protected]
Saturday night only attendance is possible at Wognummerstraat 14. This costs € 15 (bring cash) and starts at 8pm.
To book for Saturday evening only email: [email protected].
About the tradition
Shonaleigh is one of Europe’s leading storytellers. Having learned the Drut’syla tradition from the age of four, she carries thousands of oral stories from the Jewish tradition and shares their magic, mystery and wisdom with audiences around the world. She is a living tradition holder. “You hear people talking about the storytelling revival, but in Jewish culture it never died. I lived and breathed the tales during my childhood, unaware that this was anything unusual.”
The Drut’syla tradition is rooted in The Netherlands and Shonaleigh wants to bring the tradition home. One of the cycles that Shonaleigh was taught by her grandmother is the Menassah Cycle. It originated around the year 1600 from the region of Apeldoorn or Oldenzaal, nobody knows the exact place. The cycle contains hundreds of stories that belong to the Jewish heritage in the Netherlands. As
they are barely known in The Netherlands, Tellers, Tales and Tradition is a magnificent chance to get to know this oral tradition that once flourished in the ‘Low Countries’. This year, the weekend is the start of a month that Shonaleigh will spend in the Netherlands, connecting to the roots of these stories.